Abstract

An initial-boundary value problem for the 2D Kawahara-Burgers equation posed on a channel-type strip was considered. The existence and uniqueness results for regular and weak solutions in weighted spaces as well as exponential decay of small solutions without restrictions on the width of a strip were proven both for regular solutions in an elevated norm and for weak solutions in the -norm.

1. Introduction

We are concerned with an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the two-dimensional Kawahara-Burgers (KB) equationposed on a strip modeling an infinite channel . This equation is a two-dimensional analog of the Kawahara type equationwhich includes dissipation and dispersion and has been studied intensively in the last years due to its applications in mechanics and physics [1–9]. The KB equation may be considered as a perturbation of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Burgers equation which describes the propagation of nonlinear ionic-sonic waves in a plasma submitted to a magnetic field directed along the -axis [10, 11]. Equations (1) and (2) are typical examples of the so-called dispersive equations which attract considerable attention of both pure and applied mathematicians in the past decades. The theory of the Cauchy problem for (2) and other dispersive equations like the KdV equation has been extensively studied and is considerably advanced today [1, 3–9, 12–17]. Results on IBVPs for one-dimensional dispersive equations both in bounded and in unbounded domains may be found in [4, 6, 18–22]. It was shown in [18, 19, 23–26] that the KdV and Kawahara equations have an implicit internal dissipation. This allowed the proof of exponential decay of small solutions in bounded domains without adding any artificial damping term [21, 23]. Later, this effect has been proven for a wide class of dispersive equations of any odd order with one space variable [27]. The control and stability for the linear KdV equation with the transport term may fail for critical domains, but it is possible to eliminate the term by simple scaling when the KdV and Kawahara equations are posed on the whole line. The same is true also for (1) posed on a strip [28]. Recently, interest in dispersive equations became to be extended to multidimensional models such as Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP), Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equations [11], and dispersive equations of higher orders [29]. As far as the ZK equation and its generalizations are concerned, the results on IVPs can be found in [30–34] and IBVPs were studied in [24, 35–39]. It was shown that IBVP for the ZK equation posed on a half-strip unbounded in direction with the Dirichlet conditions on the boundaries possesses regular solutions which decay exponentially as provided initial data are sufficiently small and the width of a half-strip is not too large [25, 38]. Similar result was established for the 2D Kawahara equation posed on a half-strip [24]. This means that a multidimensional dispersive equation may create an internal dissipative mechanism for some types of IBVPs. The goal of our paper is to prove that the KB equation on a strip also may create a dissipative effect without adding any artificial damping. We must mention that IBVP for the ZK equation on a strip has been studied in [39, 40] and IBVPs on a strip for the ZK equation and Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Burgers equation were considered in [28, 35] and for the ZK equation with some internal damping in [37]. In the domain , the term in (1) can be scaled out by a simple change of variables. Nevertheless, it can not be safely ignored for problems posed both on finite and on semi-infinite intervals as well as on infinite in direction bands without changes in the original domain [40, 41]. The main results of our paper are the existence and uniqueness of regular and weak global-in-time solutions for (1) posed on a strip with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and the exponential decay rate of these solutions as well as continuous dependence on initial data. To explore dissipativity of the term , we used exponential weight which was implied to define solutions of (1) as the product We must mention that this idea has been proposed earlier in [12].

The paper has the following structure. Section 1 is Introduction. Section 2 contains formulation of the problem. In Section 3, we prove global existence and uniqueness theorems for regular solutions in some weighted spaces as well as continuous dependence on initial data. In Section 4, we prove exponential decay of small regular solutions in an elevated norm. In Section 5, we prove the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on initial data for weak solutions as well as the exponential decay rate of the -norm for small solutions without limitations on the width of the strip.

2. Problem and Preliminaries

Let be finite positive numbers. Define ;; and

Hereafter subscripts , , and so forth denote the partial derivatives, as well as or when it is convenient. Operators and are the gradient and Laplacian acting over . By and we denote the inner product and the norm in , and stands for norms in the -based Sobolev spaces. We will use also the spaces , where ; see [12].

Consider the following IBVP:

3. Existence of Regular Solutions

Approximate Solutions. We will construct solutions to (4)–(6) by the Faedo-Galerkin method: the functions where , are orthonormal in eigenfunctions of the following Dirichlet problem:

Define approximate solutions of (4)–(6) as follows:where are solutions to the following Cauchy problem for the system of generalized Kawahara equations:It can be shown that, for , the Cauchy problem (10) and (11) has a unique regular solution [1, 8, 12, 16]. To prove the existence of global solutions for (4)–(6), we will establish uniform in global in estimates of approximate solutions .

Estimate 1. Multiply the th equation of (10) by , sum up over , and integrate the result with respect to over to obtain which impliesIt follows from here that for sufficiently large and In our calculations we will drop the index where it is not ambiguous.

Estimate 2. For some positive , multiply the th equation of (10) by , sum up over , and integrate the result with respect to over . Dropping the index , we getIn our calculations, we will frequently use the following multiplicative inequalities [42].

Proposition 1. (i) For all ,(ii) For all ,where the constant depends on a way of continuation of as such that .

Extending for a fixed into the exterior of by 0 and exploiting (16), we findSubstituting this into (15) and making use of the inequality with an appropriate , when , we come to the inequalityBy the Gronwall lemma, Returning to (20) givesIt follows from this estimate and (13) that uniformly in and for any and where does not depend on .

Estimates (22), (23) make it possible to prove the existence of a weak solution to (4)–(6) passing to the limit in (10) as . For details of passing to the limit in the nonlinear term, see [12].

We will need the following lemma.

Lemma 2. Let be such that and for all there is some such that . Thenwhere are arbitrary positive numbers.

Estimate 3. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by , and dropping the index , we come to the equalityMaking use of Proposition 1, we estimateSimilarly,Substituting into (27) with , we obtain

Estimate 4. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by , and dropping the index , we come to the equalityMaking use of Proposition 1, we estimateTaking , we transform (31) into the inequalityMaking use of (14) and the Gronwall lemma, we get This and (30) give which imply that for all finite and all

Estimate 5. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by , and dropping the index , we come to the equalityUsing (16), we estimateTaking and substituting into (37), we obtainMaking use of (14), we find

Estimate 6. Differentiate (10) by and multiply the result by to obtainMaking use of (16), we estimateTaking and substituting into (41), we getThis implies where

Estimate 7. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by and dropping the index , we come to the equalityUsing (16), we estimateTaking , using (30)–(44) and substituting into (46), we get

Estimate 8. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by , we come, dropping the index , to the equalityUsing Lemma 2 and (14), we estimateTaking sufficiently small and positive and substituting into (49), we findConsequently, it follows from the equalities thatJointly, estimates (30), (34), (35), (48), (51), and (53) readIn other words,and these inclusions are uniform in .

Estimate 9. Multiplying the th equation of (10) by , we come, dropping the index , to the equalityWe estimate Choosing sufficiently small and positive, after integration, we transform (56) into the formActing similarly, we get from the scalar product the estimate

Estimate 10. Differentiate the th equation of (10) two times with respect to and multiply the result by to get the equation which in turn, dropping the index , can be rewritten in the form Estimates (54), (55), (58), and (60) guarantee thatand inclusions do not depend on . These estimates show the smoothing effect of the Kawahara operator first observed for the KdV equation in [12] and for dispersive equations of any finite order in [27]. Independence of (14), (63) of allows us to pass to the limit in (10) and to prove the following result.

Theorem 3. Let be such that and for some satisfying the following inequality: Then there exists a regular solution to (4)–(6), :which for satisfies the identitywhere is an arbitrary function from

Proof. Rewrite (10) in the formwhere is an arbitrary function from the set of linear combinations and is an arbitrary function from . Taking into account estimates (14), (63) and fixing , we can easily pass to the limit as in linear terms of (67). To pass to the limit in the nonlinear term, we must use (36) and repeat arguments of [12]. Since linear combinations are dense in , we come to (66). Rewriting it in the form and making use of (63), one can see that . The proof of Theorem 3 is complete.

Remark 4. Estimates (14), (63) are valid also for the limit function and (14) obtains its sharp form:Uniqueness of a Regular Solution

Proof. Let be two distinct regular solutions of (4)–(6); then satisfies the following initial-boundary value problem:Multiplying (70) by , we getWe estimateSubstituting into (73) and taking sufficiently small, we findSince then, by the Gronwall lemma, Hence, in

Remark 6. Changing initial condition (72) for , and repeating the proof of Theorem 5, we obtain from (75) that This means continuous dependence of regular solutions on initial data.

4. Decay of Regular Solutions

In this section we will prove exponential decay of regular solutions in an elevated weighted norm. We start with the following theorem which is crucial for the main result.

Theorem 7. Let and be a regular solution of (4)–(6). Then for all finite the following inequalities are true:where

Proof. Multiplying (4) by , we get the equalityTaking into account (16), we estimate